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Allium hyalinum. Outer bulb-coats dark gray; reticula- 

 tion distinct, horizontally serrate, resembling that of A. 

 attenuifolium but less regular: leaves very narrow: scape 

 8—12 inches high : spathe valves 2, short and acute: umbels 

 lax, 6-12 flowered; pedicels slender 10-16 lines long: perianth 

 pale, becoming thin, hyaline and spreading in fruit; seg- 

 ments lanceolate, acute but not acuminate, 4 — 6 lines long : 

 filaments narrowly deltoid above the united adnate base, 

 about half as long as the perianth-segments: stigma entire; 

 capsule not crested, 1 -seeded. — Along streams on McKew- 

 en's Ranch, El Dorado County, May, 1884. 



4 . 

 SOME NEW SPECIES OF THE GENUS ASTRALAGUS 



BY EDWARD LEE GREENE. 



A. streptopus. Annual, diffusely branched, a foot or 

 more high, minutely pubescent : leaflets in 5 — 7 pairs, linear- 

 oblong, retuse, 3—4 lines long: peduncles slender, 6 inches 

 long, 3 — 5-flowered: pedicels remote, slender, twisted: calyx 

 small, the slender teeth surpassing the tube: corolla not 

 seen: pod linear, an inch long, ascending, slightly incurved, 

 compressed, completely two-celled, the dorsal side turned 

 upward by the twisting of the pedicel. 



Mohave Desert, 1884, collected by Mrs. M. K. Cm-ran. 



A near relative of A. Nuttallianus. 



A. recurvus. Glabrous, a foot high, from a perenuial 

 root; stems numerous, slender, erect or at base somewhat 

 decumbent: leaflets in 6 — 8 pairs, obovate- to linear-oblong, 

 acute, }-l inch long: peduncles strict, few-flowered, the 

 flower unknown; fruiting pedicels deflexed: pod linear-ob- 

 long, | inch long, compressed, incompletely 2-celled, arcuate- 

 recurved. 



